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M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Center for Research on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

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REGIONAL CENTRES

Biocentre and VRC, Puducherry

Biju Patnaik Medicinal Plants Garden & Research Centre, Jeypore

Fish for All Centre, Kavripoompattinam

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is a non-profit research organization and was established in 1988. M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has all along been developing and following a pro-nature, pro-poor, pro-women and pro-sustainable on-farm and non-farm livelihoods through appropriate ecotechnology and knowledge empowerment.

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M S Swaminathan Research Foundation is carrying out research and development in six major thematic areas such as Coastal Systems Research (restoration of mangrove forests, alternative livelihood for fishing community, etc.), Biotechnology (developing salt and drought tolerant transgenic rice varieties, testing availability of oil content in different biofuel crops / plants, lichens diversity, etc.), Biodiversity (documenting endangered and medicinal plants, providing necessary training to village community to maintain biodiversity register, conserving genes and seeds through ex-situ community based gene bank, and in-situ on-farm conservation etc.), Ecotechnology (setting up bio-villages – biovillage paradigm involves sustainable management of natural resources and developing sustainable on-farm and non-farm livelihoods as eco-enterprises managed by self-help groups), Food Security (promoting community - based grain bank, developing urban and rural food insecurity atlases to understand the factors involved in food insecurity, providing livelihood training to women farmers particularly in the “farmers’ suicide hotspots”, etc.) and Information, Education and Communication (addressing the issues related to sustainable development using different information communication technology tools) for knowledge empowerment of the resource-poor, largely illiterate and unskilled rural women and men.

NOTICE BOARD

M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, Biju Patnaik Medicinal Plants Garden, JEYPORE (Odisha) has been selected as the winner of the NATIONAL WATER AWARD-2010 FOR THE YEAR 2010 in the NGO category, by the Ministry of Water Resources, Govt of India. This award will be distributed on the occasion of the Fourth National Water Congress 2012 on 23rd March 2012 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The announcement of recognizing Koraput District of Odisha as a “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System” was made on 3rd January at KIIT stadium, Bhubaneswar by Hon’ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in the presence of, GIAHS Coordinator and Director, Land & Water Division, FAO Dr. Parviz Koohafkan, Chief Minister of Odisha Sri Naveen Patnaik; Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Vilashrao Deshmukh, Governor of Odisha Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare. (more...) Pinnamaneni award for Swaminathan, The Hindu, Dec 20, 2011 (all media clips) Sir JC Bose Award Presented to Mr. S Senthilkumaran, Director of Information, Education and Communication , MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. The Indian Science Monitor honoured six persons with the Ninth Sir JC Bose Award on Sunday for their achievements in the field of science and its propagation to the common man, Express News Service, Dec 26, 2011
Prof. M S Swaminathan's Birth Day Celebration Programme, August 07, 2011	MSSRF- Foundation Day Programme on August 07, 2011. Executive Director, MSSRF presented our activities for the year of 2010-2011

Birth Day Celebration	(Part -1)	(Part -2)

NEWS

“Food Security Bill based on Sarvodaya principles”, The Hindu, January 31, 2012
Challenges in the year of science, mydigitalfc, Jan 19, 2012
Tsunami warning through SMS, Dininamani, January 8, 2010
Two illiterate Koraput tribals shine at Science Congress, Mr P S Jayaram, Khaleej Times online, 5 January 2012
Global recognisation for Odisha tribals' traditional green farming, Odishatoday, January 4, 2012
UN heritage status for Koraput farming system in Odisha, Mr Jyotika Sood, Down To Earth (http://www.downtoearth.org.in), January 4, 2012
Food as people's right, The Hindu, January 3, 2012
Coastal research centre to come up at Killai, The Hindu, Dec 28, 2011
Third Indian Youth Science Congress, November 3 - 5, 2011 (click here for photo gallery)
Purandeswari Launches projects for Fishermen, The Hindu, December 4, 2011
Purandeswari Launches Seawater Farming Project, Deccan Chronicle, December 4, 2011
Purandeswari Launches Projects for Fishermen meida coverage from Andhra Jyothi, December 4, 2011
Mobile plus events vedios (click here)
Let's make climate change talks inclusive, M. S. Swaminathan and Kanayo F. Nwanze, The Hindu, November 13, 2011
Banks should lead the war on poverty, M S Swaminathan, The Hindu, November 10, 2011
Taking tech. to the common man the Gandhian way (http://tallannoyedgeek.wordpress. com)
To the hungry, god is bread, M S Swaminathan, The Hindu, Oct 1, 2011


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	Community Gene Bank
	MSSRF-IGNOU Community College

EVENTS VIDEO GALLERY International Consultation on “20 Years of Rio: Biodiversity – Development – Livelihoods” at MSSRF, Chennai on February 15-17, 2012


TRAINING PROGRAMME
Apply for fellowships for the training programme Contemporary approaches to genetic resources conservation and use in the context of climate change, for either of the modules: ‘Genetic resource policy and management strategies’ or ‘Integrated seed sector development’, in the Netherlands (16 April – 4 May 2012) (Details ...).

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